18481920 Essential Questions Why did people oppose woman suffrage Did antisuffragists think men were superior to women Women and Reform Movements ID: 707474
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The American Woman Suffrage Movement 1848-1920
Essential Questions
Why did people oppose woman suffrage? Did anti-suffragists think men were superior to women?Slide2
Women and Reform Movements
In early 1800s, women involved in many different reform movements including suffrage, abolition (no slavery), and temperance (no alcohol)
Right to vote
:Suffrage = Enfranchisement =FranchiseSlide3
Seneca Falls Convention 1848
July 1848, -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
, Lucretia Mott and other organized the first women’s right convention in Seneca Falls, New York.The convention, attended by women and men, issued a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions modeled on the Declaration of Independence. Susan B Anthony built the women’s movement into a national organizationSlide4
A Declaration of Sentiments
The most controversial issue concerned suffrage
Elizabeth Stanton insisted that they include a demand for woman suffrage, but the idea of women voting was too radical. Slide5
Anti-Suffragists:
Those who opposed suffrage
(many “Anti’s”were women)Slide6
Arguments of Anti-Suffragists:
Women were high-strung, irrational, emotional
Women were not smart or educated enoughWomen should stay at homeWomen were too physically frail; they would get tired just walking to the polling stationWomen would become masculine if they votedSlide7
The Seneca
Falls Convention &
The Declaration of SentimentsSlide8
Comparing Two Declarations
The Declaration of Independence and The Declaration of SentimentsSlide9
The Five Parts of The Declaration of Independence
Preamble
“When in the Course of Human events…”The Rights of the People“…We hold these truths to be self evident…”List of Grievances“…He has refused his assent to laws…for the public good…”Efforts to avoid separation“…We have petitioned for a redress of grievances in the most humblest terms…”Independence Declared“…These united colonies are, of right ought to be free and independent states…”Slide10
Declaration of SentimentsRead the “Declaration of Sentiments” handout together with your partner.
Fill in the Grievance/Explanation Chart and be ready to discuss.Slide11
Comparing Two DeclarationsTurn to pg. 187-190 of your textbook
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of SentimentsSlide12
Discussion questionsWhy
do you think the women at Seneca Falls choose to use the Declaration of Independence as a blueprint for the Declaration of Sentiments?Which complaints most resemble complaints of colonists prior to the Revolutionary War?
Do any grievances seem like they are still true today? Explain.Slide13Slide14
19th Amendment, 1920
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”(Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify and it passed by only 1 vote)